Chances at H/S/W

My brother doesn't have a WSO profile and wanted me to post for him:

Harvard undergrad, Economics (3.6 GPA, cum laude)
780 GMAT
Solid but not extraordinary ECs

2 years at GS/MS in San Francisco
2 years at well known PE firm (think Permira, Warburg, General Atlantic) on the west coast

Recs: solid
Essays: should be well written and interesting

Can he be reasonably confident of getting into one of H/W/S, or is it a crapshoot?

 

Sorry dude, but someone with the stats you stated should know better than a bunch of college kids. Take a lap & revaluate were you're getting advice from. Oh & cum laude at Harvard's a 3.75.

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Wharton and Stanford have a new policy called "3 + 0.6." Basically, if you went to WHYP and have a 3.6 EXACTLY, not higher or lower, they will put you in a preferred admission pile. Harvard will soon follow their lead. Congrats! HWS is a possibility for you!

 
fairfieldmonkey:
with grade inflation rampant at this school, a 3.6 is basically laxbro status academic performance

You wish faggot. Laxbro's are the smartest people on the planet. Take a lap.

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Why is everyone so upset about this thread?

I said I was posting for my brother. And 3.5 is required for cum laude at Harvard - I would know because my brother did it.

I have seen a lot of people with better GPA and similar gmat getting rejected so it doesn't seem like a common sense question.

 
MoneyInTheBank:
Why is everyone so upset about this thread?

People on this board are generally very pissed off.

If you have worse credentials than them, they tell you that you are a lazy slacker who will fail. Example: http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/ivy-leave-ba-with-terrible-gpa-an…

If you have better credentials than them, they tell you that you are a gloating son of a bitch. So you are a gloating son of a bitch.

 

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